With this and other problems with Winblows 8 (my AtuoCAD won't install, IE10, Firefox and Mozilla keep having those "security certificate" errors, etc. etc. etc.) I'm seriously thinking about going back to Windows 7, or even Vista. I think these all stem from using an upgrade version rather than a clean install from a system builder version.

Oh, and since I had a spare hard disk already inside the case, I've installed Ubuntu Linux (my particular favorite flavor) on that

Followed your link and successfully downloaded a copy of Windows Vista 64 bit.

Windows 8 is history.:dance:

Unfortunately I chose the wrong option and scrubbed the hard disk, so am now re-installing all my software.

A small price to pay for being rid of Windows 8.

I intend to send my Windows 8 package back to Microsoft telling themwhat a pile of poo it is and asking for either a Windows 7 or Office 2007 upgrade in exchange. I'll let you know how that one works out.

Had-to re-install Windows 8 to get Office 365 working. So this ti,e I did a fll install from a reformatted disk all the way through, and everything (so far) seems to work just fine. Google Earth works, AutoCAD works, the whole shebang.